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1. "I tend to arrive in the rehearsal process with very strongly developed ideas about what I want to do. But I don't like those ideas to be things that are not subject to change, or subject to development, or subject to challenge." ~ Trevor Nunn

2. "I would be terribly disappointed if anything would get in the way of my being cast in something, or if performances were canceled. It was a fix that I obviously needed." ~ Trevor Nunn

3. "I've never had any feeling of disconnection between the classical theater, or the contemporary theater, or musical theater, or the thing that we call opera." ~ Trevor Nunn

4. "If you can't fully believe in your ideas, it very quickly communicates to a group of actors who need something to hold onto. They need to believe that whatever criticism, whatever comment is received, is meant." ~ Trevor Nunn

5. "In my early years, my father was away as a soldier in the war. When he came back, work was very difficult to come by. Even though he was a highly skilled man, a maker of furniture, the payment for that work was very poor." ~ Trevor Nunn

6. "Peter Hall was just organizing the Royal Shakespeare Company. It was going to be an ensemble, it was going to be in repertory, it was going to have a home in London as well as in the Midlands, and all of those things were happening at that time." ~ Trevor Nunn

7. "The first big break was winning a scholarship to go to Cambridge University. I was very lucky, because my parents couldn't have afforded a university education for me. Without a scholarship I couldn't possibly have gone." ~ Trevor Nunn

8. "The thing that I had saved up for myself and wanted most to bring off was a fully fledged professional production of Hamlet at the Royal Shakespeare Theater in Stratford." ~ Trevor Nunn

9. "When I was 13 years old, a professional theater company in my town needed a kid actor. I auditioned, and I got the part, so for just a few weeks I became a member of the company and I met some professional actors." ~ Trevor Nunn

10. "In a way, I have to have a dictatorship. I can't be told that I'm wrong. That conflicts with what I was saying earlier about listening. It isn't to do with receiving criticism and responding to other views, it's who has that last decision." ~ Trevor Nunn

11. "What you're doing is putting into professional play the way that you relate to other people, the way that you analyze and relate to a written text, the way that you would persuade anybody to do anything. It has to do with listening, with humility and a sense of yourself." ~ Trevor Nunn

12. "A lot of performing instincts are involved in the business of direction, but so is analysis and having a sense of literature." ~ Trevor Nunn

13. "I had a feeling about Shakespeare's soliloquies, that there should be a real exchange between the actor and the audience." ~ Trevor Nunn

14. "I've just taken the decision that I'm going to now go full time back into the theater." ~ Trevor Nunn

15. "If you feel very deeply about something, it's not possible to sacrifice your integrity about that." ~ Trevor Nunn

16. "One fine day I discovered that more complex plays really have to be directed." ~ Trevor Nunn

17. "The film director, in many instances, has to swallow somebody else's decision about the final form of something. It's so hard as to be intolerable." ~ Trevor Nunn

18. "If you're a director, your entire livelihood and your entire creativity is based on your self-confidence. Sometimes that's dangerously close to arrogance." ~ Trevor Nunn

19. "In my teens, I developed a passionate idolatry for a teacher of English literature. I wanted to do something that he would approve of more, so I thought I should be some sort of a scholar." ~ Trevor Nunn

20. "So, through all that early professional career I would occasionally do a musical, a pantomime or a play with songs. The next stop would be a Shakespeare, or an Ibsen, or a play by a brand new writer who had never done anything in the theater before." ~ Trevor Nunn

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It's long past dark, and I don't see anyone walking tonight. Maybe Sundays are off-limits. Maybe my ninja girl even goes to bed and gives her swaying, beautiful hair a break. I wonder where she sneaks off to. I wonder, does she have a secret boyfriend or a favorite place? The ants say: What the hell are you doing to yourself? You'll never see her again. She lives two thousand miles away!Then I think of Granddad and wonder why I dream about a man who is twelve thousand miles away. It makes me ask: Why do I care so much about people who are so far away from me?"
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